Apparatus for vaporizing and burning oil in stoves



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0. A. W EIRS.

APPARATUS FOR VAPORIZING AND BURNING OIL IN STOVES, &c.

No. 387,669. Patented Aug.'1=4, 1888.

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APPARATUS FOR VAPORIZING AND BURNING OIL IN STOVBS, &-c.

No. 387,669. Patented Aug. 14, 1888.

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, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. \VEIRS, OF ROCKVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

APPARATUS FOR VAPORIZING AND BURNING OIL IN STOVES, dc.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 387,669, dated August 14, 1888.

Application filed November 18, 1887. Serial No. 255.528.

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, CHARLES A.WEIRs,a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockville, in the county of Tolland and State of Connecticut,have invented certain new and useful Apparatus for Vaporizing and Burning Oil in Stoves, 850.; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The invention relates to an apparatus for vaporizing oil.

It has for its object to produce a device for vaporizing oil for heating and cooking and illuminating purposes which shall be simple in construction, efficient in use, and comparatively inexpensive of production.

With these objects in view the invention consists in establishing, in communication with an oil tank or reservoir, a vaporizingchamber which communicates with a vaporizing and heating burner arranged beneath said chamber in the same vertical plane; furthermore, in connecting, in communication with the vaporizing-chamber,an illuminatingburner, the said vaporizing chamber being provided with downward-extending branches formed with solid tapering extremities; and, finally, in the various novel details of construction whereby its objects are attained.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference designate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of a vaporizing and heating device, showing it equipped with an illuminating-burner. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same with the illuminatingburner removed. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view showing the device applied to a stove-casing with the illuminating-burner removed, and Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section of Fig. 3.

In the accompanying drawings, A designates the oil tank or reservoir provided with a screw-cap, a, for covering an orifice through which the oil is poured.

C designates the vaporizing-chamber, con- (No model.)

sisting of the longitudinal top branch, 0, the downwardextending branches 0 c terminating in solid tapering wedge-shaped extremities H, which are inserted through apertures in the grate-bars, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

The oil tank or reservoir A communicates with the vaporizing-chamber at one of its downward-projecting branches through apipe, B, provided with stop-cocks I) Z), for controlling the flow of oil into the said vaporizingchamber.

A vaporizing and heating burner is con necfed at d to the branch 0' of the vaporizingchamber and extends downward at d, longitudinally at D, upward at d and longitudinally at E, and is below and in the same vertical plane as the vaporizing-chamber.

F designates a pipe communicating at its lower end with the branch 0 of the vaporizingchamber on a line with the branch (1 of the vaporizing and heating burner, and which is provided at its opposite end with an illuminating-burner, G. Valves g g arearranged in this pipe for the purpose of governing the flow of Vapor to the illuminating-burner. The upper longitudinal section, E, of the vaporizing and heating burner is provided with openings 0, from which the flame for vaporizing the oil in the vaporizing-chamber and for heating the stove arises. The oil in the reservoir A flows through its pipe B into the branch c of the vaporizing chamber and upward into the chamber 0, where it is vaporized. The vapor now passes into the vaporizing and heating burner, and at the same time passes into the illuminating-burner, as indicated by the arrows in Fig. 1. By this arrangement and construction of parts it will be seen that a light may be furnished while cooking in the night, and which may be readily extinguished or regulated by operating the valves g g in the usual manner.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the operation and advantages of the invention will be readily understood without requiring an extended explanation. The vapor supplying the illuminatingburner may be entirely out off and the device used only as a cooking or heating stove, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of Ice the drawings, in which figures the illuminating-burner is omitted.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 5 Patent, is-

The combination of the vaporizing-chamber provided with downward-extending branches terminating in solid tapering lower ends, which are adapted to be inserted in apertures 10 in the gratebars, an oil reservoir communicating with one of said branches,a vaporizing and heating burner communicating with the other branch, and an illuminating-burner communicating with the said latter branch.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES A. WEIRS. Witnesses:

BENEZET H. BILL, WILLIAM Scmviuzz. 

